Students in Wake County, Durham, Chapel Hill and other local school districts protested in the March 14, 2018, national school walkout. The 17-minute demonstrations for better gun control and safer schools took place in over 2500 schools across America.

The 2001 death of Kathleen Peterson of Durham and the murder trial and conviction of her husband Michael, will be the subject of documentary series "American Murder Mystery: The Staircase" on the Investigation Discovery (ID) channel in April.